Born in New York City in 1998, Traci Johnson is a Brooklyn based textile and installation artist whose work explores Black spirituality, queer identity, ancestry, and sanctuary.

Johnson’s Safe Space installations extend their textile practice into environments that viewers can enter, inhabit, and gather within. Drawing from the language of sanctuary shaped by their religious upbringing, these works reimagine spaces of rest, reflection, and belonging through a Black diasporic and queer perspective.

Johnson received a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology and has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Canada Gallery, and the Moore College of Art and Design. Their recent commissions include a Safe Space installation for MTA/Chashama at the 50th Street Subway Station. Johnson is currently expanding their practice into large scale public installations that bring textiles, sculpture, ritual, and participation into the public realm.